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Pitiful state enrollment numbers worse than anyone expected
WASHINGTON — The biggest problem with Obamacare may not be the website – it may be Obamacare, itself.
Low enrollment in state exchanges indicates the demand for Obamacare may be nearly nonexistent.
The government expects 1.4 million Americans to enroll in Obamacare on the state-run exchanges by the end of the year, but only a little more than 49,000 have signed up, with just six weeks to go.
According to an analysis by the research firm Avalere Health, only 3 percent of expected participants have enrolled in 11 of the 14 states (and Washington, D.C.) that made their own exchanges for individual insurance.
This is potentially devastating news to the administration, which needs to sign up 7 million people by March 31, 2014, to make Obamcare financially viable.
What makes these low numbers so dramatic is the state-run exchanges have had far fewer online problems than the disastrous federal-exchange website, which only managed to sign up six people across the nation on it's first day, Oct. 1.
That means the problem likely could be that the vast majority of Americans simply don't want Obamacare, even if they can enroll.
Federal vs. state exchanges
Initially, Obamacare called for every state to set up its own health-care exchange. When most states declined to do that, the federal exchange was created to give people in those 36 states a place to enroll in Obamcare. The federal website problems have made the most headlines.
The Avalere analysis excluded Massachusetts (which is requiring those in its state health plan to re-enroll), as well as Oregon and California, which have their own issues.
In California, customers have been able to fill out applications but insurance companies have not received enrollment data.
Oregon's online system still does not work, and it has yet to enroll a single person, the Associated Press reported Monday.
Hawaii's website did not launch until mid-October, and Colorado and Minnesota have had some online problems.
But, even accounting for those factors, the low state enrollment is a terrible omen for the administration, considering the catastrophic problems it has already had with the federal exchange.
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The administration has tried to keep expectations low after it promised to release numbers this week showing how many people have signed up in October for Obamacare on the federal exchange.
All signs indicate the numbers will be dismal, after the enrollment figures leaked so far have been astonishingly low.
- One in North Carolina
- Three in Alaska
- Four in Delaware
- Five in the District of Columbia.
The administration has blamed the website's horrific problems for low federal enrollments, while the president has claimed the "product" itself is good.
The public may disagree, if the state numbers are any indication.
If the issue in the states is not so much that people can't enroll, but they don't want to enroll, the administration and Obamacare will have a dramatic new challenge.
Destined to fail?
That would support a WND analysis that concluded Obamacare is virtually certain to fail, even if the website is fully up and running by the end on the month, as the administration has promised.
The reasons include:
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Not least of all may be the damage caused by President Obama to his own health-care plan.
Obama had to apologize last week after he misled Americans since 2009, saying they could keep their health-care plans under Obamacare.
Rush Limbaugh describes the video below as a minute-and-20-seconds of Obama telling lies about Obamacare, over five years:
Here are more details on the specifics problems WND has uncovered that makes Obamacare unlikely to succeed.
Few are signing up
Democrats claimed Obamacare was designed primarily to provide insurance coverage to the estimated 15 percent of Americans without coverage.
But few uninsured Americans seem interested in Obamacare.
A Gallup poll released Friday showed only 22 percent of uninsured Americans want to sign up for Obamacare.
According to Gallup, "The health exchange websites are not only fraught with the technical problems that have led to so much news coverage in recent weeks, but have also generated relatively little interest or use among uninsured Americans – the primary target group for the exchanges."
That may be an embarrassment to the administration, but Obamacare faces a much more serious, and potentially fatal, flaw: Not enough people are enrolling to bankroll the system.
Obamacare needs 7 million enrollees by March 1 to be financially viable. That works out to 46,358 enrollees a day.
As National Review's Mark Steyn put it, "So, on its opening day it fell 46,352 short."
He added, "Were it to maintain that enrollment rate, Obamacare would reach its target of 7 million enrollees in the year 5209."
Humor aside, at this rate, Obamacare appears headed for financial collapse.
Few reasons to sign up
Critics say there is little reason for the administration to hope Obamacare enrollments will increase, even if the website is ever fixed.
As Fox News analyst Charles Krauthammer pointed out, the bigger problem is what he called a flawed incentive structure.
Meaning, people have few reasons to sign up.
"If you are a young healthy [person], which is what the system needs, there's no logic in joining the exchange and paying what will be essentially twice of what you pay today under actuarial requirements."
According to Krauthammer, only the sick will enroll in Obamacare and they won't be enough to pay for it.
That will cause insurance companies to raise premiums, which will further discourage the healthy to enroll.
"You get a system that cannot sustain itself economically," he said. "And it collapses."
Key claims not true
The most important claims used to sell Obamacare the American public have turned out not to be true.
The claims are familiar and their failures are well documented.
'Premiums will go down'
The president promised Americans would save an average of $2,500 a year in health-care premiums under Obamacare.
On the contrary, Forbes discovered, "Obamacare's bevy of mandates, regulations, taxes, and fees drives up the cost of the insurance plans that are offered under the law's public exchanges."
The magazine predicts Obamacare will increase the average premiums in the individual insurance market (insurance not provided by employers) by 99 percent for men and by 62 percent for women.
It gets worse.
Forbes cited a study by the American Action Forum that found premiums for healthy 30-year-old men will increase by an average of 260 percent.
'You can keep your health plan'
Not only are millions losing their health-care plans because of Obamacare, it turns out the administration has known they would, for years.
But the president and his fellow Democrats kept making the promise, time and time again.
'You can keep your doctor'
The adminstration admitted months ago that patients may lose their doctors under Obamacare.
On Tuesday, the Wall Street Journal published the heartbreaking story of a cancer patient who wrote, "I had great cancer doctors and health insurance. My plan was canceled. Now I worry how long I'll live."
'No death panels'
Physician and former Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean admitted Sarah Palin was right – because health care will have to be rationed under Obamcare, "death panels" will have to decide who gets critical care and potentially life-saving treatments.
Individual market disappearing
People who purchase their coverage directly from insurance companies (as opposed to getting health-care coverage through work) are part of the individual market.
About 19 million Americans are in the individual health-insurance market.
Health-policy expert Bob Laszewski has concluded that about 16 million Americans in that market will lose their current plans because they don't meet the minimum standards of Obamacare.
The Washington Post reports, those who have lost their coverage are now angrily complaining about "sticker shock" when they see what it will cost to replace their health-insurance plans.
Employer-market problems looming
The White House has delayed the implementation of the employer mandate until 2015. That is the requirement that employers with more than 50 employees provide health insurance to their workers or pay steep fines.
But there are already signs the employer market will face the same problems that bedeviled the individual market, particularly the high costs of providing an array of benefits that Obamacare requires policies carry.
Those are the so-called "mandated benefits." And, as those in the individual market have discovered, those benefits are expensive.
And often unnecessary.
CNBC economist Larry Kudlow wonders, "Why must the government tell me and everyone else what we can and cannot buy?"
He lists mandated benefits that, "as a 60-something, relatively healthy person," he does not want, such as "lactation and maternity services, abortion services, speech therapy, mammograms, fertility treatments or Viagra."
But the stark reality that tens of millions may face is not humorous at all.
Most Americans are covered by employer-provided health insurance plans. The White House says 80-percent of Americans are covered by employer plans, Medicare or Medicaid or the Veterans Administration.
Of those people, McCatchy reports, "as many as 41 million people could lose their plans even if they wanted to keep them and would be forced into other plans … based on an analysis of estimates offered by the Department of Health and Human Services in June 2010."
Forbes has an even gloomier estimate.
The magazine predicts a whopping 51 percent of the employer-market plans will be canceled.
Added to an estimated 54 percent of non-employer plans facing cancellation, that would make an unfathomable 93 million Americans facing the loss of their health insurance.
That is a far cry, and just the opposite, of the law's stated intent: to provide health insurance coverage for all Americans.
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Hi! Here's my little shameless plug for my comic,
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My art is a bit rusty right now because I had about a seven year spot where I didn't draw much at all (hopelessly addicted to MMORPGs). I'm picking back up and also trying a new style for my comic that I haven't quite figured out yet, but I like it so far and I'll get the hang of it eventually.
I'm also looking for feedback on the website. I coded it myself since I can't stand WordPress and coding is a passion of mine, but I'm wondering how it looks on smart phones, iPads, etc... I don't own any and don't have anyone handy that owns one, so I can't check it myself.
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Here's the first couple of pages, sized down a bit for the forum.
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I'll give you some feedback. I'm rarely impressed with anything but I just spent the last 15 minutes reading the story from the start and I want to know what happens next. I loved the dad-considering-the-knife bit...and it plays in well later when you are left wondering what really happened. All of the characters are so far well-defined yet kind of ambiguous- in a good way. I think the ratio of dialogue to comic is dead-on perfect, I didn't feel I had to read a book with each comic nor did I feel like nothing was really happening each comic. Each comic advanced the story a reasonable length.
I found this to be one of the rare webcomics where the art is not as good as the story, normally mind-blowing art is at the service of so-so writing and stories that don't really go anywhere and take their sweet time getting nowhere. Not that the art is bad; it's not bad, but it's not good. You probably don't need me to say that, you know what I mean. You will get better and when your art matches your story telling, watch out! My only criticism: the giant eyes thing. It distracts me; I know it's manga-influenced and if you're cool with it fine but it seems like you are desiring, as much as can be produced, a realistic feel, so I would work on faces and eyes.
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Thanks! The story is my primary concern since I agree that the art is flawed, but I know that will improve over time and I'm not too worried about it. It's much harder for me to judge my own writing though, and I feel that's the most important part. Or at least it is to me.
A friend of mine made a similar comment about the eyes. I kind of blew him off about that because I feel that I want the eyes to be more stylized, especially for a few things that come up later in the plot, but hearing that again makes me think I should reconsider. I'll have to practice eyes and faces a bit more and see if I can find something better.
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I've been working to make the eyes smaller. This was a page I'd already finished but I went back and adjusted them. I did leave the first panel mostly alone though, since I really like how Amanda's eyes came out.
But I was wondering if the eyes look better in the other panels?
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What's Better Than Fifty Hues Between White And Black?
After the fame and glory that Fifty Shades of Grey has brought to the number fifty and the perspectives of colorblind people, I imagine we'll be seeing a lot of products in the near future that parody the title of E. L. James' absurdly popular trilogy. But the best one I've seen so far making me simultaneously laugh and creeped out — similar to my reaction towards the actual book — is Fifty Shades of Chicken.
Yes, my friends, this book exists. And it looks weird.
Complete with a cover depicting some trussed-up poultry — get it? it's like bondage!!! — and the terrible "50 chicken recipes bound to be delicious" pun, this book seems just a tad too strange for my taste (no pun intended, there's been enough of that already).
Don't get me wrong: I love a good recipe book as much as the next person. But I can't determine whether this recipe writer is playfully poking fun at the series or using it as a jumping off point to be really, really weird. The website's description of the book is both hilarious and creepy, eerily denoting that the chicken is a female being cooked by some sadistic chef. It reads:
If Fifty Shades of Grey left you hungry and lusting for more (more, more!), then sink your teeth into this naughty tale of a young, free-range, and very fresh chicken who, like Anastasia Steele, finds herself at the mercy of a dominating man; in this case, a kinky and very ravenous chef. These fifty chicken recipes, each more seductive than the last, will make every dinner a turn-on.
It then offers a free recipe called "Dripping Thighs." Now, don't get me wrong: I love chicken and I love sex, but I do not ever, ever want to consume anything that refers to vaginally lubrication. Guh. Thanks for ruining sauce for me forever, "Fowler." Serious party fowl, man (okay, that pun was intended, sorry guys).
However, if you can look past the ridiculous plays on words that will undoubtedly grace every page and want this book, it's available for pre-order at Amazon and Barnes & Nobles.
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The Tobacco Cessation Program is a service provided by the University of Maryland University Health Center.
Program features and information:
- Nicotine replacement therapies, Nicorette Gum® and nicotine patch
- Acupuncture (Optional)
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Counseling sessions provide analysis and reflection of habits to help promote positive strategies and coping skills for changing cognition and behavior to quit smoking.
The positive orientation of this program eliminates the negative responses of guilt, shame, and failure, focusing on self-efficacy, empowerment, and success.
For more information, contact Edie Anderson at email@example.com or 301-314-9629.
- To empower each client to quit smoking through the use of tobacco cessation counseling, nicotine replacement therapy, acupuncture, meditation, and stress management.
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Make an appointment for a personal tobacco cessation counseling session. During the session, the counselor will provide you with a personalized plan to promote your quitting success. The counselor can talk to you about available therapies such as nicotine replacement products, acupuncture, meditation, and stress management techniques.
Fee*:Students, $10 per session/Faculty, Staff, and Visitors, $20 per session
Nicotine Replacement Therapies (NRT) are available for purchase at the University Health Center Pharmacy.
Nicorette Gum®:
This is a step-down program experienced over time used to reduce withdrawl symptoms. The two steps of gum are 4 mg to 2 mg. This can be helpful if you need oral gratification and need to be in control of how much nicotine is going into your body and when.
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This is a step-down program experienced over time. There are three steps to the patch that go from 21 mg to 14 mg to 7 mg. The patch provides a 24 hour convenient transdermal dosing of nicotine to reduce withdrawal symptoms.
Nicorette Gum® and nicotine patch therapies provide nicotine dosage that is safe for reducing cravings and allows for reducing the number of cigarettes smoked during a day.
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Treat or Trick?
Hustle & Flow is mostly jive. Plus, a Bay window on The Island, and Spielberg's 9/11.
The director Michael Bay is widely regarded as the embodiment of all that is unholy in Hollywood. This morning on NPR, Ken Turan reviewed Bay's The Island (DreamWorks) as if he'd found maggots in his popcorn. Even the creators of South Park were moved, in Team America: World Police, to pen an ode to Bay's suckitude.
I don't get it. He's not that bad. Let me burn my boats and take a bold critical stand: He's pretty good. Sometimes. His chief problem is that he can't leave bad enough alone. He'll follow one egregious car chase with two more, and throw in a helicopter wreck. And he hasn't learned to go into the crash-and-burn song-and-dance without losing the pulse of the drama. That's what happens when you're mentored by Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer instead of, say, Steven Spielberg.
The Island has some big moments, before and after the crashes start. It's about humans in identical stretchy white suits living in a high-gloss, high-tech, highly monitored tranquillity bubble. Told that they are the only survivors of a catastrophic infection that has wiped out all life on the planet, they are fed the dullest kind of institutional food and forbidden to touch one another inappropriately. (Strangely, they obey.) Their lone hope of leaving this stifling environment is to be chosen, by lottery, to journey to the last free, natural, uninfected place on earth: the island. Now, one resident, Lincoln Six-Echo (Ewan MacGregor), is asking questions of the facility's director, Merrick (Sean Bean)—questions that begin with, "Why?" He is about to discover that the island is … made out of people!!!!
Oh, sorry. Wrong dystopian thriller.
The island is … I won't say, even though you probably know from the previews. The important thing is that this isn't another mindless summer blockbuster. Well, parts of it are mindless, but the subject is mind-boggling. The movie seems dead-on in suggesting that, as we inch toward a new world of genetic engineering, there will be a new class of genetic haves and have-nots. New forms of life will arise, with new tests to determine what is and is not a sentient being. Money will feed the science and fuel the breakthroughs; morality will play a losing game of catch-up. Everything here is intelligently extrapolated (the story is credited to the dauntingly named Caspian Tredwell-Owen) from our current ethical debate over stem-cell research and cloning.
To my knowledge, Scarlett Johansson is not genetically engineered, although I've come to think that every home should have one. Every movie, certainly. Something about her ether is freakily intelligent. In her light, MacGregor seems less inspired than ever, although he has a few nice scenes toward the end of the movie when he gets to use a Scottish accent (presumably his own). Steve Buscemi is, once again, the most agreeable thing in a Michael Bay movie, even though his part—an enlightened grunt with a penchant for pin-ups—doesn't make a lot of sense.
Our new world at the moment is one of computer-generated effects, and in The Island they work handsomely. Nigel Phelps has designed a witty environment of glass and concrete bathed in reflections of blue, rippling water. It looks like a place that would, indeed, be designed by someone named Nigel. The score by Steve Jablonsky starts with stirring choirs that are obviously ironic—good stuff. It's too bad they come back in a less ironic context. There is nothing wrong with the action sequences beyond their sheer length and number. They're in the Road Warrior mode: hyper-fast and vicious. There's an especially great one involving giant dumbbells (or what looks like them) tossed off the back of a truck onto police cars.
The most haunting moment in The Island, though, is human: the kindly expression on the face of a female doctor as she regards a happy, exhausted mother who has just given birth. It's tender, it's loving, and then it's something too terrible even to contemplate. The scene should be shown to doctors in need of a crash course in empathy.
The indie sensation Hustle & Flow (Paramount Classics), written and directed by Craig Brewer, tells the gritty yet uplifting story of an abusive Memphis pimp, DJay (Terrence Howard), who has a mid-life crisis and decides to turn himself around by realizing his long-buried dream of making music. The pimp stuff is his hustle, but the music is his flow. He even has a good subject for his songs: how "it's hard out there for a pimp." One number is called "Whoop That Trick"—he settles on the title after rejecting "Beat That Bitch" and one or two other possibilities for being less refined. Another song begins with a plaint about rent hassles when his hookers aren't bringing in enough cash. DJay needs a female vocalist, and, as luck would have it, his main lady, Shug (Taraji P. Henson), has a gorgeous voice and—being in her last trimester of pregnancy—isn't generating any income. She gives him a great performance without even having to be whooped very hard. Later, Shug tells DJay, tearfully, that making that recording ("Y'know it's hard out there for a pimp ... ") has made her life worthwhile.
Is Hustle & Flow purposeful in its irony? You'd think so, wouldn't you? I mean: Would a Sundance Film Festival premiere audience have leapt to its feet for a movie that is as opportunistic and misogynistic as its pimp hero? Brewer is a puzzle. He doesn't sweeten DJay or make the way the pimp roughs up his women more palatable. He chose to write a scene in which DJay visits an audio store for a better microphone and ends up offering the skinny blond Nola (Tamryn Manning) as a supplement when he doesn't have enough cash. (Nola has no evident problem with being a hooker, but she's sickened by what DJay forces her to do when she hadn't come with him to turn tricks.) What's missing in this self-proclaimed story of redemption, though, is something other than a fairy-tale finale. It's the sense that the filmmaker understands the consequences of exploiting women even if his protagonist doesn't.
Sorry—I just don't get that from Hustle & Flow. My sense is that Brewer knows he needs the abrasive material so that audiences will think they're getting unmediated realism instead of the usual rags-to-riches cliches. How else to account for how stupid these women are made to seem, and for how Brewer sticks his camera under Manning's tiny skirt as she sashays into the car of a john? You can hear him say, "That is some mighty fine merchandise. ... But, y'know, it's hard out here for a director ..."
A large part of the legend of Hustle & Flow is its electric Sundance reception and $9 million advance from Paramount and MTV Films: You can picture all those white executives in their furs and parkas pouring out into the frigid Utah night chanting, "Whoop that Trick! Whoop that Trick!" But I think they were responding to something other than the smell of money and the attractive notion that a pimp can also be an artist. (That's gotta resonate in Hollywood.) Brewer gets the hustle and flow into the filmmaking. The camerawork is hand-held and swervy and dangerously in the moment, so you get knotted up as DJay approaches every hurdle. You feel that his very existence is always on the line: He has to hustle like mad for the opportunity to flow.
Hustle & Flow builds to an almost unbearable sequence in which DJay takes a CD of his songs to a hip-hop star known as "Skinny Black" (played by the hip-hop star known as "Ludacris"). Skinny's back in his Memphis hometown for only a night, and DJay has to insinuate himself—to go for broke to make this man understand the depth of his soul and his music. Ludacris makes Skinny Black the most formidable obstacle imaginable, a mixture of entitlement and self-disgust. And, of course, you can't pull your eyes from Terrence Howard.
A musician as well as an actor, Howard is probably best known for his role in the recent Crash as an African-American TV director who downplays his blackness to fit in to white Hollywood. Here, Howard plays black with a vengeance. He has some of Samuel L. Jackson's monomaniacal bug-eyed intensity, but his sound isn't hard or staccato. It's lighter, higher, more caressing. It suggests a world of tension in a man who's fighting to be easy. Howard might be a major actor. His DJay, though, is a major character in search of a major author.
My colleague Tim Noah weighs in this week on War of the Worlds, and is appalled that Steven Spielberg would use imagery that invokes 9/11 in a "popcorn entertainment." He labels this "pornography," can't believe that Spielberg would "stoop so low," and upbraids all critics except Stephanie Zacharek of Salon for failing to share his outrage.
With respect to Tim (and my pal Stephanie), their very premise is screwy. People might buy popcorn when they see Spielberg's War of the Worlds, but I'm pretty sure it will get stuck in their throats. This is a serious movie. It's a disturbing and depressing movie. It has more in common with Schindler's List and Saving Private Ryan than with Raiders of the Lost Ark and Jurassic Park. The film does evoke 9/11: in the gray ash that covers the hero after the first attack, the posters of the missing, the incomprehension of the populace, the presence of the ships—reminiscent of sleeper cells—underground. What I don't get is why this elicits outrage. Forgive me: I thought movies—even big-budget summer movies—were supposed to confront national traumas. And I don't find even a whiff of exploitation in Spielberg's treatment.
War of the Worlds begins with a protagonist who is emotionally isolated and estranged from his children, and it focuses on his primal urge to protect them from the horror of an alien invasion. In some ways, his grueling journey is comparable to that of the subjects of the heartbreaking new documentary March of the Penguins: They walk hundreds of miles back and forth in temperatures exceeding 100 degrees below zero to keep their eggs warm and feed their babies. They often don't survive the attempt. They act instinctually and blindly in the manner of Tom Cruise's character. Spielberg made a choice: Apart from the memorable grenade/alien-sphincter scene (the psychosexual implications of which are daunting), its hero does not even think of engaging the enemy. He fights against those who would. Spielberg and the screenwriter David Koepp could have easily made Cruise a scientist or tooled the movie to revolve around the military—as in the ridiculous Independence Day and the 1953 War of the Worlds. But that's not the story they wanted to tell.
Good science fiction—especially alien-invasion narratives—often allude to foreign wars. In the '50s, there was an entire subgenre of Cold War-inspired thrillers: The aliens were either Commies who wanted to turn us into pod people or representatives of advanced, utopian civilizations misguidedly targeted by U.S. hawks. Some used H-bomb tests as a springboard for giant monster movies. I don't know if Tim would consider the original Godzilla "pornography," but a respectable body of critics—myself among them—consider it a haunting depiction, by the Japanese themselves, of the trauma of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Farther afield, I can't think of a film that captures the social upheaval—racial and interfamilial—of the middle and late '60s as suggestively as Night of the Living Dead (which War of the World evokes in the cellar scene with Tim Robbins).
If Koepp wants to think of the U.S. as the alien invaders in Iraq, that's his business, but it's not in the movie—unless you're willing to extrapolate. It's not in Return of the Jedi, either, although George Lucas has said that the guerrilla victory of the insufferable Ewoks was inspired by the success of the North Vietnamese against the better-armed Americans. He might also (I'm not sure) have mentioned the American militias against the British—he certainly could have. The larger point, taken from H.G. Wells, is that a superior force can often be undone by a lack of understanding of the foe on a micro level. You could argue that this is happening in Iraq right now: It's a matter of record that three months before the invasion, George W. Bush didn't know the difference between Sunnis and Shiites. And no one in the administration was prepared for the culture into which American soldiers were about to plunge.
Is War of the Worlds wholly successful? No. I have problems with the retro image of the pregnant mother waiting in a relatively unshattered Boston, and with the abrupt psychological turn of the eldest son—who becomes too quickly a symbol of those moved to fight, even against hopeless odds. But this is still a great film, and one that fully earns the right to invoke 9/11. It by no means tells the whole story, but in its focus on the ways in which people respond to horrific tragedy, it has much to teach us ... 8:10 a.m. P.T.


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New parking regulations for Mono County's old wild west towns
Parking requirements in the downtown regions of Bridgeport, Lee Vining, and June Lake appear to be stifling new businesses, according to Brent Calloway, Mono County Community Development Analyst.
Current regulations require too much parking, Calloway said at the Board of Supervisors meeting Feb. 19.
Informal local sources have informed him that people aren't opening new businesses because they do not want to have to deal with the parking issue.
Rather than jumping through hoops with the county to reduce parking requirements, they are choosing to do something else entirely, Calloway said.
Supervisor Larry Johnston suggested more diagonal parking like in Bridgeport.
Bridgeport is an old town with 100-foot wide streets, designed for turning around horses, Supervisor Tim Fesko said.
But travelers don't need to turn their horses around anymore. They need to park their cars.
Calloway is drafting changes to the parking regulations and will be bringing them to the Regional Planning Advisory Committee.


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New Hangar Completed - More to Come
COVENTRY - Improvements to the Newport Airport have begun. A new hangar was just built and completed this week and it will accommodate a second homeowner who skis frequently in the area.There are plans to build a "condo hangar" that would accommodate approximately 16 aircraft. The construction may begin as early as spring.Last week, Guy Rouelle, the State Aviation Program Administrator, and Patricia Sears, executive director of the Newport Renaissance Corporation, announced many plans for improvement for the airport including the construction of a new, larger terminal, and extending the 4,000-foot runways by 1,000 feet. This extension would allow larger jets to use the airport. Plans to make the airport a Federal Trade Zone (FTZ) are underway, which would help area businesses significantly, said Sears. The change to a FTZ could happen as early as this summer. "That will be a real game changer for economic development investment in the Newport area," Sears said.Newport would be in one of only two such zones in Vermont, with the other at the southern end of the state in Brattleboro.Cape Air and Jay Peak have agreed to have charter flights out of the Newport Airport, with flights beginning as soon as this winter. And next day cargo delivery service may be coming to the airport as well, Rouelle and Sears both said.The Airport Road in Coventry will be rebuilt this year, which will be a boon to traffic to and from the airport and neighboring landfill. A composite aircraft manufacturing company has shown interest in building a facility on the airport's available property. A final announcement with details on the plans is expected in the next few weeks.Dan Gauvin, the owner of Lakeview Aviation at the Newport Airport, is enthusiastic about the various plans. Gauvin said that, in the past, he has turned people away who wanted to base their airplanes out of Newport but can't because of the lack of housing for aircraft. Some may leave their planes out in the elements, but it is not an attractive option, said Gauvin.Partnerships between Newport City Renaissance Corporation, VT Transportation Agency, VT Agency for Commerce and Community Development, Northeastern Vermont Development Agency, the City of Newport, the Town of Coventry and Vermont's congressional delegation are providing energy, strategy, focus and momentum in the plans to enhance and expand the Newport Airport, Sears said.


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Bacchus scoops up Panther Creek
The investment firm has built a presence in the wine industry over the last five years, acquiring full or substantial ownership positions in seven companies involved in producing or marketing wine, principally in California.
Its first Oregon move came in September 2011, when the firm invested in Wine by Joe of Dundee, the multifaceted winery founded by longtime winemaker Joe Dobbes.
Panther Creek was founded in 1986 by noted Carlton winemaker and civic leader Ken Wright. It rapidly rose to prominence for its stylish pinot noirs, helping enhance Oregon's reputation for the fine but finicky Burgundian variety.
Wright sold to Ron and Linda Kaplan in 1994 and opened Ken Wright Cellars in Carlton. The Kaplans subsequently sold to Liz Chambers of Silvan Ridge in Eugene.
At the winery, Mark Eggiman advises that Bacchus Capital secured outright ownership on March 1, through its Dobbes connection. "I am now reporting to Anthony Van Nice at Dobbes," he said.
As Eggiman understands it, plans are to switch production of Panther Creek wines to the high-volume Dobbes facility in Dundee and retain the lower-volume McMinnville winery for custom crush and private label production.
Apparently Michael Stevenson will remain as winemaker at Panther Creek and continue to produce his own Stevenson-Barrie wines there in addition to overseeing custom contract production.
The winery's tasting room is currently closed. However, Eggiman said it will reopen for regular business hours, noon to 5 daily, as soon as federal license transfer paperwork has been completed.


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AICPA to Congress: Allow More Accounting Students to Qualify for H-1B Visas
July 18, 2013
The American Institute of CPAs worked closely with key senators to expand the number of accounting students with advanced accounting degrees eligible for H-1B visas in a bid to add accounting to the math definition of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) in the immigration reform bill that was considered by the Senate. However, because of the politically charged nature of the overall immigration debate, no STEM-related amendments were included in the legislation given Senate approval on June 27, 2013.
"CPA firms throughout the United States need specialized skills to serve their clients and the public interest," said AICPA President and CEO Barry C. Melancon, CPA, CGMA. "The ability to move people with these skill sets across international borders using H-1B visas allows CPA firms to provide the appropriate skill sets to meet their clients' needs. We saw the immigration bill as an opportunity to address this important issue, especially due to the increased demand for accountants and auditors on a global basis."
Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio was quick to help in this endeavor by filing an amendment to the immigration bill and by advocating for its inclusion with Senate leaders.
Several prominent and influential senators assisted by joining as cosponsors of Senator Brown's amendment. Home state CPA society support encouraged the senators who cosponsored the amendment to sign on as cosponsors. The cosponsors were Senator Mike Enzi of Wyoming (an accountant and a member of the Congressional CPA and Accountants Caucus), Senator Mark Begich of Alaska, Senator Mark Pryor of Arkansas, Senator Jon Tester of Montana, Senator Bob Casey of Pennsylvania, Senator Tim Johnson of South Dakota, Senator Jack Reed of Rhode Island, and Senator Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota.
More than two-thirds of state CPA societies wrote letters to their state's senators in support of the amendment. Their work was critical in building support for the amendment.
Senator Klobuchar spoke on behalf of adding accounting to STEM during Judiciary Committee hearings and read the letter from the Minnesota Society of CPAs supporting the amendment into the record.
Senators filed 550 amendments to the bill, but only ten were brought up for votes, and none of those ten addressed STEM.
The AICPA will continue to seek legislative opportunities to expand the number of advanced accounting students eligible for H-1B visas. Furthermore, the profession's Senate advocates will be ready to assist again once the House passes its version of immigration reform legislation – likely in smaller, piecemeal bills – and meets with the Senate to hammer out the differences between the two bills.


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26 Critics
Viggo Mortensen and Michael Fassbender star in director David Cronenberg's adaptation of Christopher Hampton's play detailing the deteriorating relationship between Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung. The year is 1904. Carl Jung (Fassbender), a disciple of Sigmund Freud (Mortensen), is using Freudian techniques to treat Russian-Jewish psychiatric patient Sabina Spielrein (Keira Knightley) at Burgh"lzli Mental Hospital. But the deeper Jung's relationship with Spielrein grows, the further the burgeoning psychiatrist and his highly respected mentor drift apart. As Jung struggles to help his patient overcome some pressing paternal issues, disturbed patient Otto Gross (Vincent Cassel) sets out to test the boundaries of the doctor's professional resolve.
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This recipe for cauliflower calls for a lot of crushed red chilies and jalapenos. If you have little tolerance for spicy food, you can easily omit these ingredients. Also you may substitute 1/2 bell pepper in 1/2" dice, for the jalapenos.
You Will Need:
1/3 cup olive oil or ghee
1/3 cup chopped ginger (peeled, and cut into 3/16" dice)
10-12 whole cloves garlic, peeled (about 1 bulb)
2 jalapeno chilies, cut in half lengthwise, and then in 1/2" slices
1 heaping teaspoon of each spice:
garam masala (literally, "hot mixture", this is a spice blend available in Indian grocery stores and better markets)
curry powder
crushed red chilies
1 tsp. salt
2 tomatoes (blanch in boiling water for 1 minute to easily remove skins), chopped
2 lbs. cauliflower, cut into large bite-size pieces
Heat the olive oil or ghee in a large skillet over medium-high flame. Add chopped ginger and sauté 3 minutes, stirring frequently. Add whole peeled garlic cloves and jalapenos and cook another 2 minutes, stirring frequently. Add spices and salt, stir well, and cook another minute, being sure the spices sizzle in the oil. Now add chopped tomatoes and cauliflower pieces. Lower heat to medium and cover, stirring occasionally, until cauliflower can easily be pierced with a fork.
Yield: about 6 servings


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February 03, 2012 10:23 ET
WATERLOO, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - Feb. 3, 2012) - Peter Braid, Member of Parliament (Kitchener-Waterloo), on behalf of the Honourable Rona Ambrose, Minister of Public Works and Government Services and Minister for Status of Women, today announced the pre-qualification of Aeryon Labs, Inc.'s innovation, the Aeryon Scout micro Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), in the second round of the Government of Canada's Canadian Innovation Commercialization Program (CICP). Through this pilot program, the Government of Canada is helping Canadian businesses get their innovative products and services from the lab to the marketplace.
"Our government is focused on creating conditions to promote jobs and economic growth," said Minister Ambrose. "That is why we're committed to supporting Canadian entrepreneurs who help to keep the Canadian economy moving."
"Supporting Canada's economy is our number one priority, and today's announcement is great news for the workers at Aeryon Labs, Inc. said MP Braid. "Our Government is putting its support behind their innovation designed right here in Waterloo and bringing them one step closer in moving their innovations into domestic and international markets."
Aeryon Labs Inc.'s innovation, the Aeryon Scout micro-UAV, is designed to be flown by anyone with only a few minutes of training through simple point-and-click, map-based navigation and automated flight safety features. From a small case or backpack, the Scout can be assembled in seconds without tools and operates in extreme weather and environments. With its small size and advanced capabilities, the Aeryon Scout is targeted at a range of civilian and military applications in aerial imaging and intelligence.
"This is a vote of confidence from the Government of Canada to small enterprises and a boost to our local economy. This program is great news for us," said Chuck Lownie, VP Sales, Aeryon Labs.
The CICP is a $40-million pilot program launched as part of the Economic Action Plan. Successful companies may see their pre-commercial products and services tested within government operations, and will be given relevant feedback from participating departments.
CICP demonstrates the Government of Canada's commitment to building the jobs and industries of the future by creating the conditions for continued success of industries that are the foundation of Canada's prosperity.
In total, 27 innovations from Canadian companies pre-qualified for funding under the CICP's first round and 36 innovations under the second round.
The CICP is managed by PWGSC's Office of Small and Medium Enterprises, whose mandate is to improve accessibility to government procurement opportunities for small and medium enterprises. Launched as part of the Government of Canada's Budget 2010, the CICP is a new initiative to promote Canada's economic growth.
For the complete list of the successful innovations, please refer to the backgrounder.
For more information, please visit www.buyandsell.gc.ca/innovation or look for upcoming Calls for Proposals on www.merx.com. You can also contact the CICP team by email at email@example.com or via the toll-free line at 1-800-811-1148.
PWGSC news releases are also available on our Internet site at http://www.tpsgc-pwgsc.gc.ca/medias-media/index-eng.html.
Kickstart / Canadian Innovation Commercialization Program
Launched in 2010, the Kickstart / Canadian Innovation Commercialization Program initiative (CICP) is a $40-million pilot program that is a part of the Government of Canada's commitment to promote Canada's economic growth and support entrepreneurs.
As part of the Economic Action Plan, Kickstart was created to bolster innovation in Canada's business sector, was designed to help companies bridge the pre-commercialization gap for their innovative products and services by:
Kickstart targets innovations in four priority areas:
Kickstart has two complementary components. The first identifies Canadian innovations to test within federal operations in order to support businesses as they move their innovations to commercialization. The second builds on current efforts by the Office of Small and Medium Enterprises (OSME) to improve small and medium enterprises' (SME) access to federal procurement activities, and enables companies to showcase innovative products and services to potential government users.
Proposals related to the opportunity to test innovative products and services are accepted through competitive Calls for Proposals. The first round of Calls for Proposals was successfully announced in October 2010, and the second was announced in July 2011.
Public Works and Governments Services Canada (PWGSC) continues to work with all stakeholders to ensure that SMEs receive the vital government support needed to thrive in today's evolving economy.
OSME, through its network of headquarter operations and six regional offices, assists SMEs as they navigate through the government procurement system. It is strengthening access to government business for SMEs by collaborating with industry associations and individual businesses on training, providing information, developing support tools, and recommending procurement policy changes. OSME is also working with SME organizations to identify and pursue opportunities that encourage the introduction of innovative products and services to the marketplace.
First Round of Calls for Proposals
On February 4, 2011, the Innovation Selection Committee (ISC), in the final stage of evaluation of the CICP competitive procurement process, met to validate the ranking of proposals based on the independent reviews of the National Research Council Industrial Research Assistance Program (NRC-IRAP). Members of the ISC, 70 per cent of whom are from the private sector, were chosen based on their experience in investment and entrepreneurship, knowledge of innovation and commercialization trends, and knowledge of international business practices.
In March 2011, 19 innovations were announced as part of the first round of the CICP. An additional eight innovations were subsequently announced in July for a total of 27 innovations selected in the first round.
To date 12 first round innovators have been awarded contracts:
2G Robotics, Waterloo, Ontario; Amika Corporation, Ottawa, Ontario; Breviro Caviar Inc., Pennfield, New Brunswick; CTV Corp., Sainte-Julie, Quebec; DataGardens, Edmonton, Alberta; Edgewater Computer Systems Inc., Ottawa, Ontario; ERACTS Inc., Toronto, Ontario; Inversa Systems, Fredericton, New Brunswick; LED Roadway Lighting Ltd., Halifax, Nova Scotia; MDA Systems Ltd., Richmond, British Columbia; Sage Data Solutions Inc., Ottawa, Ontario; Virtual Marine Technology Inc., St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, and Victoria, British Columbia.
Second Round of Calls for Proposals
On November 9, 2011, the ISC, in the final stage of evaluation of the CICP competitive procurement process, met to validate the ranking of proposals based on the independent reviews of NRC-IRAP.
There are now 35 pre-qualified Canadian innovators that form a part of the CICP's second round:
3833364 Canada Inc, Gatineau, Québec; Adventure Lights Inc., Beaconsfield, Québec; Aeryon Labs, Inc., Waterloo, Ontario; Akoostix Inc. of Nova Scotia, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia; Alain Coulombe, Montréal, Québec; Aurora Control Technologies Inc, North Vancouver, British Columbia; B-Temia Inc., Québec, Québec; Ballard Power Systems Inc., Burnaby, British Columbia; Biopeak Corporation, Kanata, Ontario; CDVI Americas, Laval, Québec; Clinemetrica Inc., Westmount, Québec; Desiree Stockermans, Great Village, Nova Scotia; Edgewater Computer Systems, Inc, Ottawa, Ontario; IntelliView Technologies Inc., Calgary, Alberta; LBi - Lab_Bell inc., Trois-Rivières, Québec; MANTECH INC., Guelph, Ontario; Mawashi Protective Clothing Inc., Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Québec; Morgan Solar Inc., Toronto, Ontario; National Optics Institute, Québec, Québec; OnLogics, Ottawa, Ontario; Oracle Telecomputing Inc, Carleton Place, Ontario; Plurilock Security Solutions Inc., Victoria, British Columbia; Privacy Analytics Inc, Ottawa, Ontario; Pro-Oceanus Systems Incorporated, Bridgewater, Nova Scotia; QSDM Inc., Mississauga, Ontario; Reach Technologies Inc., Victoria, British Columbia; Resolution Optics, Halifax, Nova Scotia; Rheolution inc., Montréal, Québec; Scotia Weather Services Incorporated, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia; SunCentral Inc., Richmond, British Columbia; Solana Networks Inc., Nepean, Ontario; Tektrap System Inc, Gatineau, Québec; Temporal Power Ltd., Mississauga, Ontario; Wedge Networks, Calgary, Alberta; Xiphos Systems Corporation, Montreal, Québec.
For descriptions of the innovations: https://buyandsell.gc.ca/initiatives-and-programs/canadian-innovation-commercialization-program-cicp/pre-qualified-innovations#5
PWGSC will be working with government departments to match innovations with the right test departments, and will be entering into negotiations with the selected companies to put contracts in place to test their innovations, should the right department be found. Marking the first sale for these innovations, these contracts will also facilitate Canadian companies in moving their innovations into domestic and international markets by having the Government of Canada as a first client "reference."
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Something new to local Catholics: a married priest
Buffalo News 1/23/13
( Poster's note : Can someone please shed light on this "papal exception"? I am unfamiliar with it)
A husband and father of three daughters will become the area's first married Roman Catholic priest when he is ordained Saturday in Allegany County.
Bishop Richard J. Malone of the Catholic Diocese of Buffalo will preside over the ordination of John Cornelius, a former Episcopal priest who is being allowed into the ranks of the Catholic priesthood under a 2012 papal exception to the church's celibacy rule.
Cornelius, 64, converted to Catholicism about two years ago with his wife, Sharyl.
He spent 20 years as a priest in the Episcopal Church until retiring in 2010.
"I look forward to celebrating Mass again. It's been two years, and I missed it greatly," Cornelius said Tuesday. "That closeness to God is an amazing thing."
A directive by Pope Benedict XVI aimed at welcoming disaffected Episcopalians and Anglicans into the church allows for Cornelius' ordination.
Last year, the pope established a new "ordinariate" – an entity similar to a diocese – serving former Episcopalians and Anglicans who have converted to Catholicism.
More than 100 former Anglican priests, including Cornelius, applied to become priests for the ordinariate, and Cornelius will be among the first 30 applicants to be ordained.
His wife of 33 years and their three daughters – Virginia, Rebecca Maier and Sarah – will be on hand for the 5 p.m. ceremony in Immaculate Conception Church in Wellsville.
Afterward, Cornelius will lead a small community of former Anglicans who meet in a Catholic church in Henrietta, in the Catholic Diocese of Rochester.
The community, known as the Fellowship of Saint Alban, is considered fully Catholic but may use a traditional Anglican liturgy, including the Book of Divine Worship, which features prayers in Elizabethan-style English.
Cornelius will be a priest of the Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter, which is based in Houston, and overseen by Monsignor Jeffrey N. Steenson, a former Episcopal bishop turned Catholic.
But much of Cornelius' spiritual work will be focused in the Diocese of Buffalo – in Allegany County, where he will celebrate standard Catholic Masses and participate in other ministries at rural Catholic parishes.
His ordination doesn't signal a relaxing of the Vatican's celibacy policy.
"This is by exception. It's not the norm," said the Rev. Dennis J. Mancuso, a Catholic pastor of Allegany County who assisted Cornelius in his conversion to Catholicism. "The way they've done it is in accord with tradition."
Cornelius went through a lengthy Vatican approval and formation process.
Under Benedict's exception, former Anglican bishops, priests or deacons who are married may become priests for the ordinariate, but unmarried clergy who are ordained Catholic priests may not subsequently marry.
A 1980 provision by Pope John Paul II also allowed for some married Episcopal priests to be ordained.
Nonetheless, Cornelius' presence at the altar will be highly unusual in the Diocese of Buffalo.
"This is something that's totally new to people here," he said. "Down in Texas, it wasn't quite so much an anomaly."
The Diocese of Buffalo has at least one other priest who was married and is a father. But the Rev. Richard J. Cilano was able to pursue ordination only after his wife died. Ukrainian Rite and Byzantine Rite Catholic priests are able to marry and have families, but it's not common for them to celebrate Masses in Roman Catholic churches.
Cornelius said he believes that his perspective as a husband and parent could be a benefit in relating to parishioners.
"When they come to me and talk about their own families, there's a certain amount of reciprocity of emotion that goes along with it," he said.
Cornelius, who grew up in Bolivar, said he was laid off twice from jobs he held before entering the priesthood. He recalled the financial stresses of trying to support a family while out of work and the difficulties of raising children, including a daughter who once ran afoul of the law.
Having experienced those realities adds authenticity to his counsel for people to turn to God in times of trouble, he said.
"You can look at people and say, 'Yeah, I know what you mean, but God will take care of you,' " he said.
Cornelius served as an Episcopal priest in Florida, Rhode Island, Texas and, most recently, near Albany. His disenchantment with the direction of the Episcopal Church, including its approval of a gay bishop in 2003, led him to the Catholic Church, he said. "I'm a traditionalist in a lot of ways," he said.
Many Episcopalians took notice when the pope in 2009 made his initial overtures to disaffected members of their denomination, accusing the pontiff of attempting to poach membership.
But Cornelius said the effort was not aimed at practicing Episcopalians, but at those people who weren't attending church anymore.
"I don't think it was done with malice toward anybody. I think it was done for the care of souls," he said.
The Rev. R. William Franklin, bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Western New York, said in a statement that the change in an individual's church affiliation would not affect the diocese's efforts to seek "cordial relations" with other area organizations.
"We all have our own spiritual journeys," Franklin said. "Throughout the history of the Episcopal Church, many Roman Catholic priests have become Episcopal priests and vice versa. I don't believe God sees such things as a competition nor should we."


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Wishbone starts daydreaming that he is Quasimodo. He is so interested in his daydream he doesn't know his friend Joe is having a problem. Joe's friend, Samantha, has been hanging out with Nathaniel for a week. Will Joe be able to solve his problem? Will Wishbone save Esmerelda in his dream? Find out when you read this book.
I like this book because it is about a dog named Wishbone. He is a funny daydreamer and he is a hero. My favorite part was when Wishbone saved Esmerelda in his dream. I like this book because it was suspensful.
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Political rhetoric aside, the Great Recession of 2009 has not provoked unemployment numbers anywhere near the 25 percent rates seen at the height of the Great Depression. Except in Detroit.
This summer, Detroit's official unemployment rate hit a record 28.9 percent. The city's economic pain was on public display Wednesday as a riot scene out of the 1930s erupted here. An estimated 35,000 city residents rushed the doors of Cobo Hall in a desperate attempt to grab 5,000 federal assistance applications made available to Detroit as part of the "Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing Program," a federal stimulus fund designed to help residents pay rent and utility bills.
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The resulting chaos is symbolic not only of Detroit's plight but also of the wild lunge for free money that has been the hallmark of the $18 billion in stimulus money thrown at Michigan since last spring.
Tens of millions of dollars have been siphoned for pie-in-the-sky
public-rail projects once dismissed as boondoggles, or for trendy green
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light bulbs, or for low-priority road projects, or for a Detroit
public school system whose accounting system is notoriously corrupt. Another
$1.4 billion will plug a gaping hole in the state budget, putting off sorely
needed structural reforms.
Inside Cobo, thousands kicked and clawed for applications, ripping them from one another's hands. Many were trampled and sirens wailed as ambulances escorted six people to local hospitals.
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Cubs reach out to an agreeable Mark Prior
The Cubs of the future got a couple of blasts from the past this week at an inaugural rookie camp.
Former pitchers Kerry Wood and Mark Prior, who went through everything from hype to injury to disappointment in Chicago were part of the program, which was winding up Thursday, ahead of this weekend's Cubs convention downtown.
"Who better than those two guys?" said Jason McLeod, the Cubs' senior vice president for scouting and player development.
Wood has been around the organization a lot since his retirement from the Cubs last May. The Prior news came as a bit of a shocker.
McLeod said Prior was to fly in Thursday specifically to address the group of a dozen minor-leaguers. Prior, a former first-round draft choice who pitched for the Cubs from 2002-06 before injuries derailed his career, lives in San Diego, where McLeod used to work.
"I do not know what the deal was when he left," McLeod said. "I don't know if there were bad feelings. All I know is I reached out to him a little over a week ago, told him about the program and asked 'Hey, would you mind coming in to talk to these guys?'
"Honestly, I thought he was going to say 'No, I don't want to.' But he was fired up about it, said 'I'd love to come talk to those guys, tell them about my experiences.'"
The minor-league players, including 2011 first-rounder Javier Baez, a shortstop, worked out in the field house at Northwestern University.
The rookie camp, which also included off-the-field seminars, is new to the Cubs.
"A lot of clubs have been running rookie programs over the years," McLeod said. "We did it in Boston. We did it in San Diego a couple of years ago. The whole thought behind it, really, is to get some players that are in the minor leagues that you think are close to being here the next year, year-and-a-half, expose them to the market, really get them in a smaller group, talk a lot about what to expect when they get here, how to be professionals, how to handle the media, how to deal with the fans here.
"Former players have come in and talked about their experiences as they were coming up as young players, how they dealt with failure, how they dealt with success. We've had a lot of our business-side people come in and talk about things they can expect from the marketing end."
Hello, Kane County:
The Cubs' annual winter caravan made a stop at the home of the Kane County Cougars, the organization's new Class A affiliate in the Midwest League.
McLeod indicated it's likely that Cuban signee Jorge Soler would open the 2013 season at the higher-level Class A club at Daytona, but he wouldn't rule out Kane County altogether.
Even if Soler isn't at Kane County, McLeod said fans should see "impact" talent in the suburbs.
"I think we're going to have that (impact) team there because that Boise team that lost in the championship was the youngest team in the league by far, in the Northwest League," McLeod said of the Cubs' short-season Class A team. "We had five or six guys under the age of 20 in that starting lineup last year. So those players will probably all be at Kane County.
"That's going to be an exciting young team. We're going to be young. I don't know if we're going to win, but we're going to have young, legitimate prospects."
On the fast track:
The rookie camp was mainly for players deemed close the major leagues or at least ready for higher-level play in the minor leagues. Among those attending were pitchers Trey McNutt, Dallas Beeler, Nick Struck and Rob Whitenack. Position players included Logan Watkins and Matt Szczur.
Even though Baez played only as high as Daytona last year, he's considered a fast-tracker.
"It's been very good," said the 20-year-old Baez. "I'm not in shape yet. That's what we're working on. But I'm almost there."
McLeod said he still sees Baez as a shortstop, even though Starlin Castro holds that job with the big club. Baez had a line of .333/.383/.596 with 12 homers last year at Peoria before struggling at Daytona, hitting .188. He also suffered a hand injury last season. He says the hand is better now.


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Operation Smile Premieres Interactive Film "change forever™" featuring Tony Hawk to Celebrate 30th Anniversary of Saving Lives
Jan 09, 2013, 01:19 EST
Film Allows Viewers to Send their Smile on the Journey of a Medical Mission, and Take a Pledge to Advocate for Children Born with Clefts
NORFOLK, Va., Jan. 9, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In honor of Operation Smile's 30th anniversary celebration, share your smile with world-renowned athlete Tony Hawk. On January 10th, Operation Smile, an international children's medical charity, is premiering "change forever™" – a short interactive film starring Tony Hawk which can be viewed at www.wecanchangeforever.com. In the film, viewers can upload their smile through Facebook and watch as their smile travels around the world to help a child suffering from a facial deformity such as cleft lip and cleft palate. The online and social media campaign encourages individuals to join the movement by sharing their smile and the film on Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest. They also are asked to take a pledge to help create greater awareness for children suffering from facial deformities. The pledge advocates that every child has the right to smile.
(Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130109/DC39982 )
The video is launching during National Birth Defect Awareness month. Every three minutes, a child is born with a cleft. One in 10 will not live beyond their first birthday. Children with clefts are often unable to speak or eat properly, and are shunned from their communities.
To increase awareness, Operation Smile launched its 30th Anniversary change forever™ campaign, featuring a year-long series of events in the U.S. and globally. Operation Smile has set a goal to raise significant funds worldwide through the campaign to eradicate the backlog of children suffering from clefts, and increase global access to safe surgical care.
The change forever™ campaign is designed to make a lasting impact. The global campaign is planned to include the additional following elements:
- The anniversary kicked off in the Philippines. In 30 days in 9 cities, Operation Smile provided more than 8,000 free healthcare evaluations and performed surgeries for 1,219 Filipino children and young adults. More than 1,000 medical volunteers from 38 countries donated their talents for these anniversary missions in the Philippines, where Operation Smile hosted its first-ever medical mission in 1982.
- As part of a grant awarded to Operation Smile by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Operation Smile will launch a large-scale awareness campaign about craniofacial malformations to increase information for families in the U.S. The campaign is being designed to improve access to healthcare services for children with clefts.
- Transformational stories from Smile Ambassadors including Roma Downey, Jessica Simpson, Brooke Burke-Charvet, Zachary Levi, Giuliana Rancic, Donald Trump, Jr., Billy Bush and so many others;
- Multimedia events in Boston, Dallas, Palm Beach, Park City, D.C., NYC, Toronto and LA.
- In-country field reports from well-known mommy bloggers on surgical missions;
- A thought-leadership gathering in D.C. where an Operation Smile report on the state of surgical delivery in the global health landscape will be released;
- Youth initiatives including the 22nd annual International Student Leadership Conference, where over 600 students from more than 20 countries will develop their philanthropic leadership skills.
Visit www.operationsmile.org, follow @operationsmile on Twitter, and on Facebook at www.facebook.com/operationsmile for more information.
About Operation Smile ( www.operationsmile.org )
Operation Smile, headquartered in Norfolk, Virginia, is a global children's medical charity that works in more than 60 countries, whose network of more than 5,000 medical volunteers from over 80 countries is dedicated to helping improve the health and lives of children. Since it was founded in 1982, Operation Smile has provided more than 3.5 million healthcare evaluations and conducted over 200,000 free surgeries for children and young adults born with cleft lips, cleft palates and other facial deformities, as well as patients suffering from burns. To build long-term self-sufficiency in developing countries, Operation Smile trains doctors and local medical professionals so they are empowered to treat their own communities, donates medical equipment and supplies, and provides year-round medical treatment through its worldwide Comprehensive Care and Training and Treatment Centers.
Jessica Kraft, Director of Public Relations
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Years ago, I left home and joined the [United States Marine Corps][2] where I was assigned the Military Occupational Specialty of Basic Metal Worker (MOS 1316). I loved building things as a welder, but could not see myself doing this until I reached age 65.
After my Honorable Discharge in the early 1990s, I used my G.I. Bill to go to school and received my Bachelor of Science Degree in Physics four years later.
Using a love of computers since I played on a Commodore 64 at 10 years old and two (2) C++ electives that I had taken in school, I began working in the computer programming field.
The recession following ENRON in 2001 left me working at a remedial job for a little over two years while I brushed up on my skills at a local community college in SQL and first learned what the new .NET Framework was all about.
I have had the pleasure of working as a Software Developer since 2003.
For a short while, I pulled in a little extra income by running a moonlighting business under the name [Joe's Welding][3]. Dangerous working conditions and non-paying customers prompted me to sell my mobile welding equipment about the time my son was born.
Today, I am exclusively a Software Developer. My language of choice is C#, and I enjoy working with databases.
Where I am not known by my code, I am known by my motorcycle: I am one of the few riders who loves the Harley-Davidson XR1200. Pictures of my modified "XR" are posted on websites around the world, and I go by the screen name [JoeP][4] on the [XR1200 Owners Group][5].
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Standard "wet buckets" for collecting rain and snowfall. The sensor (a) is triggered through rain falling on its grid. This in turn operates the motor for the lid (b), which swings it off of the wet bucket (c), and onto the other side of the sampler (d), thus opening the wet bucket. This remains open until the storm event is over. The lid returns to its original position over the wet bucket (adapted from Lippincott et al. 1982).